Current Courses
Generation and Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Phylogenetics and Phylogeography
Dates: 3-Jun-2013 ~ 9-Jun-2013
The rapid expansion of genomic resources and explosion of new genome sequencing technologies allows researchers to obtain large phylogenomic data sets for any system rapidly and economically. In this course, students will receive an overview of recent technological advances, learn about data collection using emerging phylogenomic approaches, and analyze data sets using the most recent methods. Areas to be covered include: (1) emerging sequencing technologies, (2) targeted high-throughput sequencing approaches, such as anchored phylogenomics, transcriptome sequencing, reduced-representation library sequencing/RAD sequencing, and high-throughput amplicon sequencing, and (3) data analysis, including phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis, and species delimitation
NESCent Academy - Next-gen sequencing: data acquisition, comparative genomics, design and analysis for population genetics, systematics and development
Dates: 3-Jun-2013 ~ 9-Jun-2013
NESCent Academy - Next-gen sequencing: data acquisition, comparative genomics, design and analysis for population genetics, systematics and development
GMOD Summer School
Dates: 19-Jul-2013 ~ 23-Jul-2013
Ontologies for evolutionary biology
Dates: 29-Jul-2013 ~ 3-Aug-2013
Evolutionary research has been revolutionized by the explosion of genetic information available, and ontologies must play a central crucial in relating this knowledge to observable diversity. Ontologies provide scaffolding that interconnects many kinds of observations; across species, they provide evolutionary, developmental, and mechanistic insights. In this course, we will discuss the integration points between ontologies including anatomy, phenotype, ecology, and biodiversity efforts; on partnerships between domain experts and expert ontologists; and on descriptions of various tools and tricks to handle ontologies and ontology-annotated data in the context of evolutionary biology.
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
Dates: 5-Aug-2013 ~ 10-Aug-2013
Quantitative genetics deals with the inheritance of measurements of traits that are affected by many genes. Developments in the field are not reflected in textbooks and available courses aimed at evolutionary biologists. This workshop will review the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics, its connections to evolution that is observed at various time scales and illustrate how that theory can be tested with data. Participants will learn to use R, an open-source statistical programming language, to build and test evolutionary models.
The NESCent Academy
Starting in 2011, all courses are being offered through the NESCent Academy. The Academy is a new, community-driven process for developing and offering short post-graduate courses in synthetic evolutionary science, as well as evolutionary biology workshops for educators. We asked you, the evolutionary biology community, to suggest course ideas, vote on your ideas and submit full proposals. Here is our list of 2011 courses. The NESCent Academy website has detailed information about instructors, dates and how to apply.
- Evolutionary quantitative genetics: Steve Arnold and Joe Felsenstein
- Next-gen sequencing: data acquisition, comparative genomics, design and analysis for population genetics, systematics and development: Brian O'Connor and Alexie Papanicolaou
- Practical computing for biologists: Steve Haddock and Casey Dunn (co-sponsored by the Bioinformatics Research Center and Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University)
- Computation phyloinformatics: Rutger Vos, Bill Piel and Christian Zmasek (offered by the Computational Biology Research Center in Tokyo, Japan and co-sponsored by NESCent)
- Evolution and Medicine (offered by the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and co-sponsored by NESCent)
